Building a Library: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress

With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress; Mozart 225: A 200-disc box set of all Mozart's completed works; Disc of the Week.

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with Andrew McGregor

0930Building a Library: Stravinsky 'The Rake's Progress'. Anna Picard compares recordings on both CD and DVD of Stravinsky's operatic morality tale following the fate of Tom Rakewell as he abandons poor Anne Trulove for the delights of London in the company of the nefarious Nick Shadow.

1030Mozart 225 - an exhaustive new compilation offering 200 discs with all Mozart's completed works, a new Köchel catalogue, a brand new biography, and previously unrecorded fragments offering a glimpse of how Mozart actually went about the process of composing. Andrew chats to Professor Cliff Eisen about the curation of the box, and Sir Nicholas Kenyon picks a few choice samples to give us a flavour of the performances.

1145Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

10.40am – Nick Kenyon and Professor Cliff Eisen on Mozart225

Mozart 225 is an exhaustive new compilation offering 200 discs with all Mozart's completed works, a new Köchel catalogue, a brand new biography, and previously unrecorded fragments offering a glimpse of how Mozart actually went about the process of composing. Andrew chats to Professor Cliff Eisen about the curation of the box, and Sir Nicholas Kenyon picks some choice samples to give us a flavour of the performancesMozart 225: The New Complete EditionDECCA 4830000 (200CD)http://www.mozart225.com/